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First Infantry Civil War
First Michigan Infantry
We left camp on the morning of the 5th, in light marching order, and took up our line of march toward the left, and reached the river about noon, where the advance was skirmishing with the enemy's pickets. A crossing was soon effected, and we continued on toward Dinwiddie Court House; bivouacked for the night about four miles from the Court House. At 11 o'clock we were aroused and ordered to fall in quietly, and soon were on the road again that we had come out on; following it a couple of miles, we bore to the left, and struck the south bank of the river higher up than where we crossed during the day. Here we halted for daylight. The night was very cold and the troops suffered considerably, many having no blankets or overcoats.
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